skinship

In Mexico, interdependence among people in emphasized and expressed through cosleeping and "skinship." … A similar type of "skinship" also exists throughout Mexico—all one had to do is look at the way people walk or sit together. … women are always patting touching ...

1994, Nicole Landry Sault, Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 311

However, there were times that folks needed that skinship to feel hearten'd and Dan often felt when others had that need.

2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN

This relationship of parents to children is especially enhanced by bathing together—commonly known as skinship (sukinshippu). Other groups, from businessmen or to neighboring housewives to hikers and classmates, often seek to increase the strength of a relationship by engaging in hadaka no tsukiai at a sentō, health center, or onsen.

1992, Scott Clark, “The Japanese Bath: Extraordinarily Ordinary”, in Joseph Jay Tobin, editor, Re-made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society (social science), Yale University Press, published 1992, page 102